English Department;
Anderson Hall
1114 W. Berks St.
Temple University
Philadelphia, PA 19122-6090
215-204-1810
e-mail: rdupless@temple.edu
Website: <http://wings.buffalo.edu/epc/authors/duplessis>
Education
B.A.
Barnard College, 1963; Ph.D. Columbia University, 1970. Dissertation:
The Endless Poem: Paterson of William Carlos Williams and The Pisan
Cantos of Ezra Pound.
Awards and
Honors
2002: Pew Fellowship in the Arts (taken in AY 2004-05)
2002: Roy Harvey Pearce/ Archive for New Poetry Prize for a lifetime
contribution to American poetry and literary scholarship.
2002: Exceptional Salary Adjustment Award, Temple University
2001-2002: Temple University Study Leave
1999: Temple University Faculty Award for Creative Achievement
1994-1995: Temple University Study Leave
1993: Award from The Fund for Poetry for service to American poetry
1992: Residency at Le Centre de Poésie et Traductions de
la Fondation Royaumont, Aisères-su-Oise, France at Royaumont,
France for translation of my
poetry
1990: Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship in Poetry
1988: NEH Travel to Collections Grant
1987-1988: Temple University Research and Study Leave
1986: NEH Travel to Collections Grant
1985: Fulbright Professorship; teaching in Nijmegen, The Netherlands
1985, 1980, and 1977: Temple University Faculty Summer Grant
1983-84: Grant-in-Aid of Research, Temple University
1981-82: Temple University Research and Study Leave
Career
Temple
University, Philadelphia, PA
1987-current, Full Professor
1983-87, Associate Professor
1974-83, Assistant Professor; Tenured 1980
Katholieke Universiteit, Nijmegen, Fulbright Professor, Fall 1985
Douglass College, Rutgers University, 1973-74, Lecturer
1972-73, Trenton State College, Assistant Professor
1970-72, Université de Lille III (France), ,Maître
de conférence associé
1970-71, Rijksuniversiteit-Gent (Belgium), Suppléant
1967-70, Columbia College, Columbia University, Preceptor
School of General Studies, Columbia University,
Summer 1970 – Instructor, Summer 1966 – Preceptor.
Bibliography
of Books and Articles, 1979-2006
Books
Published
Blue
Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work. Tuscaloosa: University of
Alabama Press, forthcoming 2006.
DRAFTS. Drafts
39-57, Pledge, with Draft unnumbered: Précis. Cambridge (England):
Salt Publishing, 2004.
Draft, Unnumbered:
Précis. Vancouver: Nomados Press, 2003.
Drafts 1-38,
Toll. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2001.
Genders, Races,
and Religious Cultures in Modern American Poetry, 1908-1934. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 2001.
The Objectivist
Nexus: Cultural Poetics. eds. Rachel Blau DuPlessis and Peter Quartermain.
Tuscaloosa: The University of Alabama Press, 1999.
The Feminist
Memoir Project: Voices of Women's Liberation. eds. Rachel Blau DuPlessis
and Ann Snitow. NY: Three Rivers/ Crown Publishing Group, 1998.
Renga: Draft
32. Philadelphia: BeautifulSwimmer Press, 1998.
Drafts 15-XXX, The Fold. Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1997.
Essais: Quatre
Poèmes. Traduction collective, Royaumont, revue et complétée
par Jean-Paul Auxeméry. Bar-le-Duc: Un Bureau sur l'Atlantique,
Editions Créaphis, 1996.
Drafts (3-14).
Elmwood, CT.: Potes & Poets Press, 1991.
Draft X: Letters.
Philadelphia: Singing Horse Press, 1991.
The Pink Guitar:
Writing as Feminist Practice. New York: Routledge, 1990.
ed. DuPlessis,
The Selected Letters of George Oppen. Durham, N.C.: Duke University
Press, 1990.
ed. Susan Stanford
Friedman and DuPlessis, Signets: Reading H.D. Madison: The University
of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
Tabula Rosa.
Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1987.
H.D.: The Career
of that Struggle. London: Harvester and Bloomington: Indiana University
Press, 1986.
Writing Beyond
the Ending: Narrative Strategies of Twentieth-Century Women Writers.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1985.
Gypsy/Moth.
Oakland, CA: Coincidence Press, 1984.
Wells. New York:
Montemora, 1980. Selected for the Duration Press Online Out of Print
Book Archives, 1999. http://www.durationpress.com
Research
in Progress
Torques:
Drafts 59-76. A continuation of DuPlessis' long poem project. In
process.
Teaching
English 970: Ideas and Forms in Literature. Given as Gender, Poetry
and Poetics in Twentieth Century Writing
English 904: Manuscript Tutorial, Creative Writing Program
English 835: Graduate Survey of Anglo-American Poetry.
English 850, Studies in Literary Criticism. Feminist Literary Theory.
English 835: Post WWII United States Long Poem
English 790: Graduate Poetry Workshop.
English 353: Senior Seminar, given as Women and Poetry, undergraduate.
English 275/Women's Studies 363: Feminist Theory, undergraduate
English 252: Contemporary American Poetry, undergraduate
English 250: Modern British and American Poetry, undergraduate
Women's Studies 201: Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Women.
English 160/ Women's Studies125: given as Gender and Sexuality in
Modern Fiction by Men and Women
English 84: Introduction to Literature
Intellectual Heritage 51 and 91 (honors section)
Research articles, poems, essays, reviews and notes published
or in press (1975-2006)
2006
Commissioned chapter, "HD and Revisionary Myth-Making,"
Cambridge Companion to Modernist Poetry. Alex Davis and Lee M. Jenkins,
eds. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Publication in mid-2006.
"Draft
42: Epistle, Studios." translated by Renata Morresi, Smerilliana
4 (Italy) (forthcoming).
"Draft
60: Rebus," translated into Portuguese. Poesia do Mundo, ed.
Manuel Portela (forthcoming).
"Draft
64: Forward Slash" and "Draft 65: That," UR-VOX 4
(forthcoming).
Interview of
RBD conducted by Jeanne Heuving, slightly revised version in Elisabeth
Frost and Cynthia Hogue, eds. Women Poets and the Innovative Necessity
(Works and Interviews). In circulation.
"Echological
Scales: On ARK of Ronald Johnson." in Ronald Johnson: Man and
Poet, ed. Joel Bettridge and Eric Selinger. Orono, ME: National
Poetry Foundation, 2005. (forthcoming)
2005
"Draft 52: Midrash," Boundary 2 (forthcoming 32. 3 [Fall
2005]).
"Draft
58: In Situ" and "Draft 60: Rebus." Literary Review,
48.2 (Winter 2005): 81-94.
"Draft
59: Flash Back." Web Conjunctions. http://www.conjunctions.com/wcidx.htm
"Draft
61: Pyx." The Chicago Review 50: 2.3.4 (Winter 2004/05): 126-136.
The Zukofsky Issue.
"Draft
62: Gap." Chain 11 (issue on public forms): 115-117.
"Draft
63: Dialogue of Self & Soul," The Poker 4 (Summer 2004):
50-54.
"Draft
69: Sentences." The Poker 6 (forthcoming)
"Draft
LXX: Lexicon." Conjunctions (Spring 2005) forthcoming.
"A Test
of Poetry and Conviction." Paper delivered at the Louis Zukofsky
conference, On-line http://www.writing.upenn.edu/epc/authors/zukofsky/100/program.html
"Anne Waldman:
Standing Corporeally in One's Own Time." Jacket Magazine 27
(Winter/Spring 2005); access at <jacketmagazine.com/27/index/html>.
Also accepted for Daniel Kane, ed. "Don't Ever Get Famous"
[anthology re. the New York School], in circulation to publishers.
2004
"Draft 55: Quiptych," The Best American Poems, 2004. ed.
Lyn Hejinian. New York: Scribner, 2004: 75-79.
"Marble
Paper: Toward a Feminist History of Poetry," MLQ-- Modern Language
Quarterly 65, 1 (March 2004): 93-129.
Interview of
RBD conducted by Jeanne Heuving, Contemporary Literature 45, 3 (Fall
2004): 397-420.
"Manhood
and its Poetic Projects."The Periphery Viewing the World, ed.
Christina Dokou, Efterpi Mitsi, Bessie Mitsikopoulou. Selected Papers
from the 4th International Conference of the Hellenic Association
for the Study of English. Athens: Parousia Publications 60, 2004:159-181.
"'Uncannily
in the open': In Light of Oppen." excerpt from a longer essay,
Poetry Project Newsletter 201 (December/January 2004-05): 7-8.
"Per la
gente etrusca," "For the Etruscans," translated into
Italian by Paola Bono. DWF [donnawomanfemme], 3-4, 2004: 58-84.
"Review
of Cassandra Laity and Nancy Gish, eds., Gender, Sexuality and Desire
in T.S. Eliot." Modernism/Modernity 11. 3 (September 2004):
599-602.
"Draft
49: Turns, and Turns, an Interpretation," Feminist Studies
30. 1 (Spring 2004): 33-44.
"Draft
54: Tilde," X-connect , 6 (2004): 25-39.
"Draft
59: Flash Back," www.conjunctions.com [Conjunctions on-line],
Jan. 2004.
"In the
Flower," poem in Enid Mark, Ars Botanica [an artist's book],
Wallingford: ELM Press, 2004.
"Seven
Clay Songs" set by composer Larry Nelson. Text from Draft 51:
Clay Songs.
H.L. Hix, ed.
Wild and Whirling Words: A Poetic Conversation. Silver Springs,
MD: Etruscan Press, 2004. An anthology of poems and round-robin
responses to poems. DuPlessis poem, 142-143. Comments by DuPlessis,
though published anonymously, 35-36; 50-51; 57-58; 70-71; 163; 195.
"The Poems
of Sappho" and "Praxilla's Silliness" (from Tabula
Rosa), in Kindled Terraces: American Poets in Greece, ed. Don Schofield.
Kirksville, MO: Truman State University Press, 2004: 203-208.
"The Darkest
Gush: Emily Dickinson and the Textual Mark" (note from 1994
approximately). Titanic Operas: A Poets' Corner of Responses to
Dickinson's Legacy. ed Martha Nell Smith. http://www.iath.virginia.edu/dickinson/titanic/duplessis/html
2003
"Lorine
Niedecker the Anonymous: Gender, Class, Genre, and Resistances."
Poetry Criticism, vol. 42. David Galens, Project Editor. Detroit:
Thomson & Gale, 2003: 132-143. (Reprint of a 1992 article)
"Foreword,"
to The Grand Permission: New Writings on Poetics and Motherhood,
ed. Patricia Dienstfrey and Brenda Hillman. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan
University Press, 2003: vii-xi.
"Draft
42: Epistle, Studios," Salt v. 14, An International Journal
of Poetry and Poetics (The Jacket issue, 2002): 117-123. Came out
in 2003.
"Draft
43: Gap" and "Draft 44: Stretto," HOW 2 (vol. 2,
1). August 2003. Website is http://www.departments.buckness.edu/stadler_center/how2
"Draft
47: Printed Matter" and "Draft 51: Clay Songs" in
Free Verse (Winter 2003).
http://english.chass.ncsu.edu/freeverse/Archives/Winter_2003/poems/R_Duplessis.htm
from "Draft
51: Clay Songs," The Philadelphia Inquirer, Monday, March 31,
2003. A13
"Draft
55: Quiptych," Conjunctions 40 (40X40), Spring 2003: 288-292.
"Draft
56: Bildungsgedicht with Apple." Kiosk 2 (Spring 2003): 109-116.
"Draft
57: Workplace: Nekuia." The Poker 2 (Spring 2003): 5-10.
"Statement
for PORES," about politics and the cultural moment. PORES 2
(April 2003). Online journal journal@pores.bbk.ac.uk
"Genius
for Sale!" Wallace Stevens Journal 26. 2 (special issue on
Marjorie Perloff article), Fall 2002: 194-210.
Translated from
the French by DuPlessis, J-P Auxeméry, "The Dark Room/
camera oscura," on H.D. and Pound, HOW2 (Fall 2002), http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler_center/how2/
Bibliography
and Chronology of George Oppen, for Selected Poems of George Oppen,
ed. Robert Creeley, New York: New Directions, 2003.
2002
"Propounding Modernist Maleness: How Pound Managed a Muse,"
Modernism/ Modernity, 9. 3 ( September 2002): 389-405.
"Shoptalk--Working
Conditions and Marginal Gains," a response to three essays
on postmodern textuality. Textual Studies in the Late Age of Print,
ed. Elizabeth B. Loizeaux and Neil Fraistat. Madison: University
of Wisconsin Press, 2002: 85-95.
"Blue Studio:
Gender Arcades," Open Letter (Canada) eleventh series, 4 (Spring
2002): 92-125.
"Draft
39: Split." Ixnay 8 (2002): [2-11].
"Draft
43: Gap" dc poetry http://www.dcpoetry.com/anth2002/duplessis.htm
"Draft
45: Fire" and "Draft 46: Edge," Hambone 16 (Fall
2002): 124-136.
"Draft
L: Scholia and Restlessness," Chain 9: Dialogue (Summer 2002):
84-89.
"Draft
53: Eclogue," Hotel Amerika 1.1 (2002): 48-57.
"Draft
57: Workplace: Nekuia," Logopoeia www: logopoeialogopoeia.da.ru
"Draft
51: Clay Songs," mark(s) <http://www.markszine.com/index.html>
" 'Seismic
Orgasm': Sexual Intercourse and Narrative Meaning in Mina Loy,"
Pro Femina 27-28 (2001; appeared in 2002): 156-180. Translated into
Serbian by Dubravka Duric. A feminist cultural and political journal
published in Beograd, Yugoslavia.
"Etrurkama"
[For the Etruscans], Genero 1 (2002): 109-124. Translated into Serbian
by Dubravka Djuric. Published by the Centar za Zenske Studije (Center
for Gender [?] Studies), Beograd.
[Section from
"Writing"]. OBAJE (July-August 2002).
"Endings
and Contradictions." Chapter 1 of Writing Beyond the Ending
(1985). Brian Richardson, ed. Narrative Dynamics: Essays on Time,
Plot, Closure, and Frames. Ohio State University Press. 2002: 282-300.
2001
"Draft 48: Being Astonished." "We Who 'Love to Be
Astonished'": Experimental Women's Writing and Performance
Poetics, eds. Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue. Tuscaloosa: The University
of Alabama Press, 2001: 237-254.
.
"The Topos of the 'Thing': Some Thoughts on 'Objectivist' Poetics."
The Idea and The Thing in Modernist American Poetry. Ed. Cristina
Giorcelli. Palermo: Renzo e Rean Mazzone Editori, 2001: 31-51.
"The Gendered
Marvelous: Barbara Guest, Surrealism and Feminist Reception."
The Scene of My Selves: New Work on New York School Poets, ed. Terence
Diggory and Stephen Paul Miller. Orono: National Poetry Foundation,
2001: 189-213.
"A Note
on Gil Ott and Community," The Form of our Uncertainty: A Tribute
to Gil Ott, ed. Kristen Gallagher. Tuscon/Buffalo: Chax Press/ Handwritten
Press, 2001: 74-75.
from "Draft
48: Being Astonished." Swirl 1 <http://www.geocities.com/swirlzine/>
"Draft
42: Epistle, Studios," Jacket 14. http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/jacket14/
duplessis. html. Copublished with Salt 14 (print form).
"Draft
40: One Lyric," First Intensity 16 (Summer 2001): 80-85.
from "Draft
48: Being Astonished," Bombay Gin 27 (2001): 15-18.
"Draft
43: Gap," Belladonna 12 (pamphlet), Summer 2001.
"Draft
35: Verso" in 5_Trope (on line journal). www.webdelsol.com/5
trope/5 T 10. htm Nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
2000
"A Primer for a President," Temple University Faculty
Herald 29, 8 (November 15, 2000): 7. (Poem, written for the Arts
Festival Inaugural Celebration for David Adamany)
"the big
e," [sound "translation," response to Ernst Jandel
"from das grosse e"]. Ernst Jandel, Reft and Light. Dichten=4.
Providence: Burning Deck, 2000: 44.
"Porodic,
polovi, psiha" (Translation of "Family, Sexes, Psyche"
into Serbian), Pro Femina 21/22 (2000): 117-135. Beograd, Yugoslavia.
A journal of culture.
One section
of "Writing" translated into modern Greek by Elisabeth
Arseniuo in THEL, EAR (November 2000): 28.
"Draft
38: Georgics and Shadow." Conjunctions 35, American Poetry,
States of the Art
(2000): 313-319.
"Oppen
and Pound" (1981). Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. Gale
Group, 2000.
"'Darken
Your Speech': Racialized Cultural Work of Modernist Poets"
In Aldon L. Nielsen, ed, Reading Race in American Poetry: "An
Area of Act". Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2000: 43-82.
"Haibun:
Draw your/ Draft," H.D. and Poets After, ed. Donna Krolik Hollenberg.
Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2000: 112-129.
"Two Drafts
from the Next Fold." ABACUS 130 (May 15, 2000): 1-18. "Draft
41: Of This" and "Draft 42: Epistle, Studios."
Response: Experimentation
and Critical Style. How2, 4. Summer 2000. How2 is an online journal
of feminist poetics. <http://www.departments.bucknell.edu/stadler
center/how2/current/index.html>
Wells. NY: Montemora,
1980. Selected for the Duration Press Online Out of Print Book Archive.
<http://www.durationpress.com>
"Echological
Scales: On ARK of Ronald Johnson." Facture: A Journal of Poetry
and Poetics 1 (2000): 99-119.
"Draft
47: Printed Matter." Sulfur 45/46: The Final Issue (Spring
2000): 41-43
1999
"Otramente"
[translation of "Otherhow" from The Pink Guitar], in Otramente:
Lectura y escritura Feministas, ed. Marina Fe. Mexico City: Fondo
de Cultura Economica, 1999: 243-264. Translated into Spanish by
Nattie Golubov.
"'One
Perfect Limousine'--on Rae Armantrout." "A Wild Salience":
The Writing of Rae Armantrout, ed Tom Beckett. Cleveland, OH: Burning
Press, 1999: 37-46.
"Surface
Tension: Thinking about Andrews," Aerial 9 (1999): 49-61. Special
Issue on Bruce Andrews.
Symposium Participant,
"The Situation of American Writing, 1999," American Literary
History 11, 2 (Summer 1999): 243 -249.
"The Blazes
of Poetry: Remarks on Segmentivity and Seriality with Special Reference
to Blaser and Oppen." The Recovery of the Public World: Essays
on Poetics in Honour of Robin Blaser. Charles Watts and Edward Byrne,
eds. Burnaby (Canada): TalonBooks, 1999: 287-299.
"Draft
34: Recto." Gare du Nord 2/ 2 (1999): 8-9.
from "Draft
33: Deixis." kenning Vol. 2, 2 (Summer 1999): 23-30.
from "Draft
33: Deixis." Xcp 4 (Cross-Cultural Poetics), 1999: 46-50.
"Draft
37: Praedelle," Backwoods Broadsides Series, January 1999.
from "Draft
38: Georgics and Shadow," American Poetry Review Philly Edition
99 (Fall 1999): 24.
1998
"'Seismic Orgasm': Sexual Intercourse and Narrative Meaning
in Mina Loy." Mina Loy: Woman and Poet, ed. Maeera Shreiber
and Keith Tuma. Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation, 1998:
45-74. (reprint)
"A Letter
on Loy." Mina Loy: Woman and Poet, ed. Maeera Shreiber and
Keith Tuma. Orono, Maine: The National Poetry Foundation, 1998:
499-501.
Sixty-six sections
from "Draft 32: Renga." Hambone 14 (Fall 1998): 78-92.
Thirty-four
sections from "Draft 32: Renga." Conjunctions (30th anniversary
issue: Paper Airplane), 1998: 159-166.
"The Contemporary
Long Poem: Feminist Intersections and Experiments. A Roundtable
Conversation." Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
27 (1998): 507-536. Special Issue: American Women Poets and the
Long Poem.
"The Pink
Guitar." From Artifice to Indeterminacy: An Anthology of Avant-Garde
Poetics from 1980 to the Present. Ed. Christopher Beach. University
of Alabama Press, 1998: 297-318.
"Draft
36: Cento." Chain 5 (Summer 1998): 69-74.
"Haibun:
'Draw your/ Draft.'" Sulfur 42 (April 1998): 96 -111.
"Selvedge"
and a section of "Writing" from Tabula Rosa (1987), "O"
from "Draft X: Letters," and "Draft 5: Gap"
from Drafts (1991), and selection from "Otherhow" from
The Pink Guitar, in Moving Borders: Three Decades of Innovative
Writing by Women, ed. Mary Margaret Sloan. Jersey City: Talisman
House Press, 1998: 332-341 and 580-592.
Selections from
"Otherhow." in Poems for the Millennium: The University
of California Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, Volume 2: From
Postwar to Millennium. Ed. Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris. Berkeley:
University of California Press, 1998: 433-435.
1997
Six sections from "Draft 32: Renku." American Poetry Review
's Philly Edition (insert in Philadelphia Weekly), October 1, 1997:
14.
"The Blazes
of Poetry: Remarks on Segmentivity and Seriality with Special Reference
to Blaser and Oppen." Boxkite: A Journal of Poetry & Poetics,
Number 1 (1997): 35-50.
"Draft
6: Midrush" (from Drafts 3-14), a selection of the essay "Otherhow"
(from The Pink Guitar), and "Some Notes on Drafts," a
new discussion of Drafts in Dwelling in Possibility: Women Poets
and Critics on Poetry. eds. Yopie Prins and Maeera Shreiber. Ithaca:
Cornell University Press, 1997: 327-343.
"In the
Bosom of the Family: Contradiction and Resolution in Edward Albee."
Contemporary Literary Criticism Online (CLCO), ed. Jeff Chapman
and Dan Jones. Detroit: Gale Research Press. Reprint.
1996
"Manifests," Diacritics 26, 3 (Fall-Winter 1996): 31-53.
Special issue: Poetry, Community, Movement.
"'Seismic
Orgasm': Sexual Intercourse and Narrative Meaning in Mina Loy,"
in Ambiguous Discourse: Feminist Narratology and British Women Writers,
ed. Kathy Mezei, University of North Carolina Press, 1996: 187-214.
Revised reprint.
"Lorine
Niedecker, the Anonymous: Gender, Class, Genre and Resistances,"
in Lorine Niedecker: Woman and Poet, ed. Jenny Penberthy. Orono:
Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1996: 113-137. Reprint.
"Circumscriptions:
Assimilating T.S. Eliot's Sweeneys," in Jeffrey Rubin-Dorsky
and Shelley Fisher Fishkin, ed., People of the Book: Thirty Scholars
Reflect on Their Jewish Identity. Madison: University of Wisconsin
Press, 1996: 135-152.
"ƒ-words:
An Essay on the Essay," American Literature 68, 1 (March 1996):
15-45. Special issue, ed. Sharon O'Brien, on contemporary writing
in United States.
"'All my vast/ journeying sensibility': Barbara Guest's Recent
Work." Sulfur 39 (Fall 1996): 39-48.
"In the
Forefront of the Avant-garde." The Women's Review of Books
XIV, 1 (October 1996): 1, 3-4. Review of the biography of Loy by
Carolyn Burke and the edition of Loy's poems, ed. Roger Conover.
"'Knowing
in the Real World': a review of Denise Riley's Mop Mop Georgette,"
Parataxis: Modernism and Modern Writing 8/ 9 (1996): 63-69.
"Draft
26: M-m-ry," The Iowa Review 26, 2 (1996): 56-59. Special issue
on North American Poetry.
from "Draft
27: Athwart," Poetry New York (1996): 73.
"On Drafts:
A Memorandum of Understanding" and "Draft 11: Schwa,"
in Onward: Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, ed. Peter Baker. New
York: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., 1996: 143-162.
Sections 9-10
from "Draft 23: Findings," The Capilano Review Series
2: 17/18 (January 1996): 18-19. Special Robin Blaser issue.
"Draft
29: Intellectual Autobiography," Chain 3 (Spring 1996): 58-65.
1995
"'HOO, HOO, HOO': some episodes in the construction of modern
whiteness." American Literature 67, 4 (December 1995): 667-700.
"On Aurora
Leigh [from Writing Beyond the Ending]," in The Norton Critical
Edition of Aurora Leigh, ed. Margaret Reynolds. New York: W. W.
Norton and Co., 1995: 463-466.
"Breaking
the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence" [Chapter 3 of Writing
Beyond the Ending], in Narrative/ Theory, ed. David H. Richter.
New York: Longman Publishing Group, 1995, 280-297.
"'To Bear
My Mother's Name': Künstlerromane by Women Writers"[Chapter
6 of Writing Beyond the Ending], in Deborah Silverton Rosenfelt,
ed. "Tell Me a Riddle": Tillie Olsen . In the Women Writers,
Texts and Contexts Series. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press,
1995: 243-269.
"Contemporary
Women's Poetry," in The Oxford Companion to Women's Writing
in the United States, ed. Cathy N. Davidson and Linda Wagner-Martin.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1995, 672-676.
"Draft
19: Working Conditions," Mandorla: Nueva Escritura de las Américas/
New Writing from the Americas (1995): 94-103.
"The flavor
of eyes" [Review of Barbara Guest, Selected Poems], The Women's
Review of Books, XIII, 1 (October 1995): 23-24.
"Draft
25: Segno," West Coast Line 17 (Fall 1995): 122-125.
"Draft
24: Gap," Grand Street 54 (Fall 1995): 172-176.
Sections 2-6
from "Draft 23: Findings," Common Knowledge 4, 3 (Winter
1995): 165-168.
Sections 11-13
and 21 from "Draft 23: Findings," Sulfur 37 (Fall 1995):
125-128.
Sections 16
and 17 from "Draft 23: Findings," Lower Limit Speech:
a newsletter in poetics #11: 7-8.
"Draft
16: Little," in The Gertrude Stein Awards in Innovative American
Poetry, 1993-1994, ed. Douglas Messerli. Los Angeles: Sun and Moon
Press, 1995: 90-93.
"T"
[section of Draft X] in bite to eat place, ed. Anne Walker and Andrea
Adolph. Oakland: Redwood Coast Press, 1995: 79.
"Powetry,"
[a review of Bernstein, Brathwaite, Cole], Sulfur 36 (Spring 1995):
209-213.
"Response,
June 5, 1994"[to a query about poetics], texture #6 (1995):
4.
"Draft
22: Philadelphia Wireman," Hambone 12 (1995): 110-113.
"Medusa,"
in Scars: American Poetry in the Face of Violence, ed. Cynthia Dubin
Edelberg. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 1995: 8-13.
ed. DuPlessis.
Mary Oppen, "Sketches from Life." North Dakota Quarterly
(Summer 1994-1995): 56-75.
1994
"'Corpses of Poesy': Some Modern Poets and Some Gender Ideologies
of Lyric," in Feminist Measures: Soundings in Poetry and Theory,
eds. Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller. Ann Arbor: University of
Michigan Press, 1994: 69-95.
"Draft
21: Cardinals," Chelsea 57 (1994): 82-88. A section also printed
in The World #50 (New writing from The Poetry Project), 1995: 103-05.
"Draft
20: Incipit," Parataxis: Modernism and Modern Writing 6 (Spring/Summer
1994): 14-17.
"Skirting the Subject: a review of Alan Shima." Studia
Neophilologica 66 (1994): 93-99.
"from Writing"
and "Draft 12: Diasporas" anthologized in The Art of Practice:
forty-five contemporary poets, ed. Dennis Barone and Peter Ganick.
Elmwood, CT: Potes & Poets Press, 1994: 19-25.
"Trouée"
[Draft 5: Gap], Action Poétique 136 (Automne 1994): 15-19.
Traduction collective Royaumont.
"Rootworks"
[review of Mackey, Hejinian, Blaser], Sulfur 35 (1994): 212-220.
Assorted short
reviews for Journal of Modern Literature
1993
"'Amor Vin--':Modifications of Romance in Woolf" [Chapter
4 of Writing Beyond the Ending], in Virginia Woolf: A Collection
of Critical Essays, ed. Margaret Homans, in the "New Century
Views" Series. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1993: 115-135.
"Reader,
I married me: A Polygynous Memoir," in Changing Subjects: The
Making of Feminist Literary Criticism, eds. Gayle Greene and Coppélia
Kahn. New York: Routledge, 1993: 97-111.
"Copying,"
Sulfur 33 (Fall 1993): 257-272.
"Draft
19: Working Conditions," Hot Bird Mfg (October 1993): 10 pp.
"Draft
15: Title," "Draft 16: Little," "Draft 17: Unnamed,"
"Draft 18: Traduction," Sulfur 32 (Spring 1993): 41-63.
Assorted short
reviews for Journal of Modern Literature 18, 2/3 (Spring 1993).
1992
"Lorine Niedecker, the Anonymous: Gender, Class, Genre and
Resistances," The Kenyon Review XIV, 2 (Spring 1992): 96-116.
"'Seismic
Orgasm': Sexual Intercourse, Gender Narratives, and Lyric Ideology
in Mina Loy," in Studies in Historical Change, ed. Ralph Cohen.
Charlottesville: The University Press of Virginia, 1992: 264-291.
Brief Reviews
of Bernstein, Grossman, Loy, Dahlen, Mandel, Ott, Sommer. Sulfur
31 (Fall 1992): 275-281.
"Draft
14: Conjunctions," TO: 1, 1 (July 1992): 78-84.
"On Drafts:
A Memorandum of Understanding," TO: 1, 1 (July 1992): 72-77.
"Draft
13: Haibun," Dark Ages Clasp the Daisy Root #7 (April 1992):
39-44.
Assorted reviews
of Antin, Niedecker, Glancy, Greek lyric. Sulfur 30 (May 1992):
221-224.
1991
"From 'Crowbar'" in Love Poems by Women: An Anthology
of Poetry from Around the World and Through the Ages, ed. Wendy
Mulford (New York: Ballantine Books, 1991): 102-03.
"Draft
7: Me," 6ix 1, 1 (Spring 1991): 4-6.
"Draft
4: In," Mandorla I, 1 (Spring 1991): 64-68.
Sections "S,"
"D," "K," and "N," from Draft X: Letters,
Aerial 6/7 (November 1991): 61-62.
"Draft
11: Schwa," Grand Street 39 (November 1991): 26-33.
"Draft
12: Diasporas," Sulfur 29 (November 1991): 52-58.
"Image
Persistante" ["Afterimage"], translated into French
by Yves di Manno, in 49 + 1 Nouveau Poètes Américains,
choisis par Emmanuel Hocquard et Claude Royet-Journoud. Royaumont:
Un Bureau sur l'Atlantique, 1991: 79-85.
Assorted reviews
(of Coolidge & Guston, Armantrout, Friedlander and Schwerner),
Sulfur 29 (November 1991): 207-214.
"L"
and "X" from "Draft X: Letters," The Women's
Review of Books, VIII, 10/11 (July 1991): 42.
Two poems from
Wells translated into Chinese by Mingxia Li, in First Line 14 (Fall
1991): 162-64.
Entry on H.D.,
Reader's Encyclopedia of American Literature, ed. George Perkins,
et al. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1991.
"Thinking
About Annie Finch, On Female Power And The Sonnet," HOW(ever)
VI, 3 (Summer 1991): 16.
Assorted initialed
short reviews for Journal of Modern Literature (Temple University),
annual review number.
"Review
of Ferrar on Woolf and Ruddick on Stein," Tulsa Studies in
Women's Literature 10, 2 (Fall 1991): 295-98.
1990
"Power, Judgment, and Narrative in a work of Zora Neale Hurston:
Feminist Cultural Studies," in New Essays on Their Eyes Were
Watching God, ed. Michael Awkward. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 1990: 95-123.
"Feminist
Narrative in Virginia Woolf," Why the Novel Matters: A Postmodern
Perplex, eds. Mark Spilka and Caroline McCracken-Flesher. Bloomington:
Indiana University Press, 1990: 341-347.
ed. DuPlessis,
"'The Philosophy of the Astonished': Selections from the Working
Papers of George Oppen," Sulfur 27 (1990): 202-220.
"Draft
9: Page," Conjunctions 15 (1990): 243-247. Among "33 Contemporary
Poets."
"Otherhow,"
anthologized in Conversant Essays: Contemporary Poets on Poetry,
ed. James McCorkle. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1990:
480-490.
Contribution
to "Patterns/Contexts/Time: a Symposium on Contemporary Poetry,"
Tyuonyi 6/7 (Summer 1990): 57-59.
"RE: Man
Ray," Sulfur 26 (1990): 204-212.
ed. DuPlessis.
George Oppen, "The Anthropologist of Myself: a selection from
working papers of George Oppen," Sulfur 26 (1990): 135-164.
"O"
from "Draft X: Letters," Talisman: A Journal of Contemporary
Poetry and Poetics 4 (Spring 1990), 44.
"'A White
Fiction': a woman and a page" [on Anne-Marie Albiach], Temblor
10 (January 1990): 168-174.
Assorted initialed
short reviews for Journal of Modern Literature (Temple University),
annual review number.
1989
"Woolfenstein," in Breaking the Sequence: Women's Experimental
Fiction, eds. Ellen G. Friedman and Miriam Fuchs. Princeton: Princeton
University Press, 1989: 99-114.
"No Moore
of the Same: The Feminist Poetics of Marianne Moore," The William
Carlos Williams Review (special Marianne Moore issue, ed. Theodora
Graham), 14, 1 (Spring 1989): 6-32.
Translation
(by Yves di Manno) of DuPlessis poem "Afterimage" as "Image
Persistante" in Etats-Unis: Nouveaux Poètes, Action
Poétique 117 (1989): 18-22.
"Draft
8: The" and "Draft 9: Page," ABACUS 44 (August 1989),
13 pp.
"Draft
7: Me," NOTUS: New Writing 4, 1 (Spring 1989): 39-41.
"Draft
5: Gap," Conjunctions 13 (1989): 40-44.
"Review
of Kerry Driscoll, William Carlos Williams and the Maternal Muse,"
The William Carlos Williams Review 15, 2 (Fall 1989): 51-55.
ed. DuPlessis.
George Oppen, "The Circumstances: Selections from unpublished
poems and working papers of George Oppen," Sulfur 25 (1989):
10-43.
Poems anthologized
in Cradle and All: Women Writers on Pregnancy and Birth, ed. Laura
Chester. Boston: Faber and Faber, Inc., Publishers, 1989: 156; 245-247.
Assorted initialed
short reviews for Journal of Modern Literature (Temple University),
annual review number.
1988
"Breaking the Sentence; Breaking the Sequence" [Chapter
3 of Writing Beyond the Ending], in Essentials of the Theory of
Fiction, eds. Michael Hoffman and Patrick Murphy. Durham: Duke University
Press, 1988: 472-492.
"For the
Etruscans: Sexual Difference and Artistic Production," Debating
Texts: A Reader in Twentieth-Century Literary Theory and Method,
ed. Rick Rylance (London: Open University Press, 1988): 259-274.
"Feminist
Narrative in Virginia Woolf," Novel 21, 2 & 3 (Spring 1988):
323-330.
"Draft
6: Midrush," Temblor 7 (1988): 50-55.
"DuPlessis
discusses Chisholm," H.D. Newsletter 2, 2 (Winter 1988): 44-47.
"Sub Rrosa,"
Sulfur 21 (1988): 152-164.
"A letter
among letters," Sulfur 22 (1988): 188-93.
"For Duncan,"
H.D. Newsletter 2, 1 (Spring 1988): 8-10.
"Rewriting
the Rose: Women, Poetry and the Canon." Margin to Mainstream:
The Broadening of the American Literary Canon, ed. Eugene A. Bolt,
Jr. and Constance D. Harsh. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania
Press.
Poems anthologized
in Deep Down: The New Sensual Writing by Women, ed. Laura Chester.
Boston: Faber and Faber, Inc., 1988: 147-149.
Assorted initialed
short reviews for Journal of Modern Literature (Temple University),
annual review number.
1987
"'The familiar/ becomes extreme': George Oppen and Silence,"
North Dakota Quarterly, special issue on Some Others: Contemporary
American Poetry, ed. Sherman Paul; 55, 4 (Fall 1987): 18-26.
"Draft
3: Of," Sulfur 20 (Fall 1987): 23-27.
"Draft
1: It" and "Draft 2: She," Temblor 5 (1987): 22-33.
"Whowe:
an essay on work by Susan Howe," Sulfur 20 (Fall 1987): 157-165.
"'The Sisters'
secret [interfering] child': some reflections on Clayton Eshleman,"
Temblor 6 (1987): 94-97.
1986
"Family, Sexes, Psyche: an essay on H.D. and the muse of the
woman writer," Montemora 6 (1979): 137-156. Revised reprinting
in H.D.: Woman and Poet, ed. Michael King (Orono, Maine: National
Poetry Foundation, 1986): 69-90.
"Language
Acquisition," The Iowa Review (Special H.D. centennial issue),
16, 4 (1986): 252-283.
"While
these letters were a-reading," Ironwood 27 (Spring 1986): 159-169.
"Afterimage,"
Temblor 4 (1986): 19-22.
Assorted initialed
short reviews for Journal of Modern Literature (Temple University),
annual review number.
1985
"For the Etruscans; Sexual Difference and Artistic Production:
The Debate over a Female Aesthetic," Revised reprinting in
The New Feminist Criticism: Essays on Women, Literature, and Theory,
ed. Elaine Showalter (New York: Pantheon Books, 1985): 271-291.
"Pater-daughter,"
Soup 4 (New Critical Perspectives), 1985: 40-54.
"Writing"
Ottotole 1 (1985): 82-110.
"Otherhow,"
Sulfur 14 (1985): 27-38.
1984
"On the Island," Sagetrieb 3, 1 (Spring 1984): 113-118.
(Essay honoring Oppen's 75th birthday)
ed. DuPlessis,
George Oppen, "Letters to Rachel Blau DuPlessis," Ironwood
24 (1984): 120-138. Selected, with a brief memoir.
"A Note
on the State of H.D.'s The Gift." Sulfur 9 (1984): 178-182.
1983
"Crowbar," Sulfur 8 (1983): 131-146.
1982
"Four Poems," Paper Air 3, 1 (1982): 47-51.
"Ode,"
Sulfur 3 (1982): 15-19.
1981
"Objectivist Poetics and Political Vision: A Study of Oppen
and Pound." George Oppen: Man and Poet, ed. Burton Hatlen.
Orono, Maine: National Poetry Foundation, 1981: 123-148.
"'Woman
is Perfect': H.D.'s Debate with Freud," Feminist Studies 7,
3 (Fall 1981): 417-430. Co-authored with Susan Stanford Friedman.
"'I Had
Two Loves Separate': The Sexualities of H.D.'s Her," Montemora
8 (1981): 7-30. Co-authored with Susan Stanford Friedman.
"Oppen
and Pound," Paideuma 10, 1 (Spring 1981): 59-83.
ed. DuPlessis
and Susan Friedman. H.D., "The Master," Feminist Studies
7, 3 (Fall 1981): 406-416.
ed. DuPlessis
and Susan Friedman. H.D., "Selections from HER and The Gift,"
Montemora 8 (1981): 31-76.
"Voyaging,"
Paideuma 10, 1 (Spring 1981): 44-46.
1980
"For the Etruscans; Sexual Difference and Artistic Production:
The Debate over a Female Aesthetic," in The Future of Difference,
eds. Hester Eisenstein and Alice Jardine (Boston: G. K. Hall &
Co., 1980): 128-156. Paperback edition, Rutgers University Press,
1985.
"Selvedge,"
and "Megaliths," Montemora 7 (1980): 33-34; 199.
1979
"Psyche, or Wholeness," The Massachusetts Review XX, 1
(Spring 1979): 77-96.
"The Feminist
Apologues of Lessing, Piercy and Russ," Frontiers: A Journal
of Women Studies IV, 1 (Spring 1979): 1-8.
"The Critique
of Consciousness and Myth in Levertov, Rich and Rukeyser."
Shakespeare's Sisters: Feminist Essays on Women Poets, eds. Sandra
M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,
1979: 280-300. Reprint.
"Romantic
Thralldom in H.D.," Contemporary Literature XX, 2 (Spring 1979):
178-203.
1977
"In the Bosom of the Family: Contradiction and Resolution in
Edward Albee," The Minnesota Review, n.s. 8 (1977): 133-145.
1975
"The Critique of Consciousness and Myth in Levertov, Rich and
Rukeyser," Feminist Studies 3, 1-2 (Fall 1975): 199-221.
"George
Oppen: 'What Do We Believe to Live With?'" Ironwood 5 (1975)
[III, 1, The George Oppen Issue], 62-77.
Papers Presented
at Professional Meetings, and other invited appearances including
poetry readings (1985-2006 only)
2005
"Mappings."
Invitational Reading at Rosemnbach Museum and Library, April 20,
2005.
Invitational
Seminar Participant: Theory of the Lyric. Paper: "Lyric Ambivalence."
American Comparative Literature Association annual conference, Penn
State University. March 11-13, 2005.
Poetry Reading
(one of five poets), Webster's Books Store, State College, PA, March
12, 2005..
Poetry Reading
(solo) and classroom appearances. Indiana University of Pennsylvania,
Indiana, PA March 14-15, 2005.
Poetry Reading.
Hamilton College, Ezra Pound Conference, May 2005.
2004
"A
Test of Poetry and Conviction." Paper at the panel on A Test
of Poetry. Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference. Columbia University,
September 17-19, 2004.
Invited introducer
of Adrienne Rich, Free Library of Philadelphia reading, September
23, 2004.
Senior participant
in Modernist Studies Seminar, "Other Modernisms and The Location
of Poetry" October 22, 2004.
Poetry Reading
(one of two poets). Eliott Bay Books, Seattle, Washington, October
18, 2004.
Poetry Reading
(solo reading), Kootenay School, Vancouver BC, October 20, 2004.
Poetry Reading
(one of five poets), Modernist Studies Association, Vancouver, B.C.,
Canada, October 22, 2004.
Lecture: "Manhood
and its Poetic Projects." and Poetry Reading (solo reading).
University of Florida, Gainesville. November 5, 2004.
Class appearance
in Women's Studies 201 (Professor Laurie Bernstein), Rutgers-Camden,
for The Feminist Memoir Project, December 7, 2004.
MLA Off-Site
Poetry Reading (one of 46 poets), December 29, 2004. Highwire Gallery,
Philadelphia.
Rosenbach Library,
Celebration of Marianne Moore. short readings from her letters.
December 29, 2004.
2003
Colloquium on my poetry and the experimental tradition, Dipartimento
di Lingue e letterature moderne, Università di Macerata,
Italy, June 30, 2004.
Poetry Reading
and discussion, sponsored by the Department of English and the Centre
for Cultural Poetics, University of Southampton, June 2, 2004, Southampton,
England.
Poetry Reading
and discussion, sponsored by Contemporary Poetry Research Centre,
Birkbeck College, by Brunel Universiy and by Royal Holloway, Department
of English, June 1, 2004, Birkbeck College, London, England.
Invited Participant
in V Encontro Internacional de Poetas, 27-30 May 27-30, Coimbra,
Portugal, sponsored by the Groupo de Estudos Anglo-Americanos, Faculdade
de Letras, Universidade de Coimbra. Reading in Biblioteca Joanina,
May 28, 2004.
Participation
in "26 Letters, 26 Poets," a program of alphabet poems
specially written for The Rosenbach Museum and Library's exhibition
R is for Rosenbach, sponsored by the Pew Foundation. April 28, 2004.
My poem was on letter K.
Discussion of
Marxist approaches in the university with a delegation of Vietnamese
professors from the Ho Chi Minh National Political Academy, Temple
University, April 26, 2004. Organized by Phil Alperson, Philosophy
Department.
Poetry Reading,
February 5, 2004. Women Poets at Barnard, Barnard College, New York.
Invited to SUNY-Buffalo,
November 5-6, 2003-colloquium on my work and poetry; reading in
the "Wednesdays at 4:00 Plus" series.
Invited participant,
plenary, "Lorine Niedecker in the Objectivist Studio,"
Lorine Niedecker conference, Woodland Pattern Arts Center and the
Milwaukee Public Library, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, October 2003.
Poetry reading,
invited workshop participation in Madrid Summer Seminar, a Low Residency
MFA Program in Spain, sponsored by the University of New Orleans.
July 2003.
Discussion of
Genders, Races and Religious Cultures at colloquium on criticism
in "History, experimentation, modernism." Dipartimento
di Lingue e letterature moderne, University of Macerata, Macerata,
Italy. July 1, 2003.
Poetry Reading,
On the Experimental Tradition. Centro Internazionale di Poesia,
POIESIS, Dipartimento di Lingue e letterature moderne, Università
di Macerata, Macerata, Italy, July 1, 2003. Reading with Toni Maraini,
Giulia Niccolai.
.
Networking Women Research Project, discussion of my critical work
and networking with a project of European gender studies, sponsored
the University of Macerata. Rome, Centro Studi Americani, June 23,
2003.
Colloquium and
Reading. "Drafts-fest," Department of English, Temple
University, April 24, 2003.
Poetry reading
and colloquium with creative writing students, Shippensburg University,
Shippensburg, PA, April 10, 2003.
Respondent,
"What's New in American Poetry," University of Wisconsin.
Institute for Research in the Humanities. Also Poetry Reading. April
3-6, 2003.
Keynote speaker
and poetry reading. "Craft, Critique, Culture" Conference,
University of Iowa, March 28-30, 2003. Paper "Inside the Middle
of a Long Poem."
Poetry Reading,
March 22, 2003, The Bowery Poetry Club, New York, New York (with
Mei-mei Bersssenbrugge).
March 20, 2003.
Reading of "Draft 49: Turns and Turns, an Interpretation"
at the Feminist Scholarship at Temple University, Second Annual
Women's Studies Conference.
Poetry Reading,
March 15, 2003. University of Coimbra, Portugal.
Poetry Reading,
POG, Tucson, Arizona, January 18, 2003.
Lecture ("Manhood
and Its Poetic Projects"), University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ,
January 17, 2003.
2002
December 9, 2002. Brief Reading, Pew Fellowship Celebration. Arden
Theater, Philadelphia.
December 3,
2002. Reading, Book Party for Drafts 1-38, Toll. Writers House,
University of Pennsylvania.
Nov 18, 2002.
Celebrating New Directions: Denise Levertov and George Oppen. Sponsored
by the Poetry Society of America, The Culture Project, 5 Bleecker
Street, New York. Spoke on Oppen and read from his work.
Nov. 13, 2002.
Reading at the Rosenbach Museum and Library, Philadelphia. On Literary
Parodies. Curated by Nathalie Anderson.
Paper on Oppen,
MSA (Modernist Studies Association), Oct 31-Nov 3, 2002, University
of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin
Oct. 10-13,
2002. University of California, San Diego, lecture " 'Uncannily
in the Open': In Light of Oppen" and poetry reading, for the
Roy Harvey Pearce / Archive for New Poetry Award for a poet-scholar.
Participation
in "Poetry and Pedagogy" seminar, chaired by Bob Perelman
and Alan Golding, MSA (Modernist Studies Association), Oct 31-Nov
3, 2002, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.
Plenary Speaker,
"Manhood and its Poetic Projects: The construction of USA masculinity
in the countercultural poetry of the 1950s: A Scouts Report."
Conference sponsored by HASE (Hellenic Association for the Study
of English) and Faculty of English Studies, University of Athens
(Greece), May 24-May 27, 2002.
Paper on Anne
Waldman and Poetry Reading, Anne Waldman Celebration, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, March 13-15, 2002.
"Propounding
Modern Maleness: How Pound Managed a Muse" [on Ezra Pound],
Seminar delivered at Università di Roma III, English Department,
March 6, 2002.
Poetry Reading,
Publication Party for We Who Love to be Astonished, Fordham University/
Lincoln Center, New York, March 1, 2002.
Passwords Series.
Discussion of Lorine Niedecker, Poets House, New York, Feb. 22,
2002.
Nether Providence
Women's Club, brief reading, Delaware County, Feb. 7, 2002
Genre-Mixer,
brief reading. Temple University, Feb. 6, 2002.
Poetry Reading,
Washington Printmaker's Gallery, Washington, D.C. January 12, 2002.
With Tom Mandel.
2001
Poetry Reading, University of Delaware, March 21, 2001
Poetry Reading,
Belladonna Series, Bluestockings Women's Bookstore, New York City,
April 6, 2001
Poetry Reading,
"Poets for Choice," Ceres Gallery, 584 Broadway, New York
City, April 19, 2001
"Propounding
Modern Maleness and Managing the Muse [on Ezra Pound]," in
Session 1324: Modernist Musings: Plots and Poetics of Creativity
and 'Genius,' Oct. 13, 2001; Modernist Studies Association 3, Rice
University, Houston.
Poetry Reading,
Oct. 14, 2001; Modernist Studies Association 3, Rice University,
Houston.
Russell House,
Poetry Reading Series, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, Oct.
24, 2001
Paper ("Blue
Studio"), classroom discussion, and poetry reading, University
of Maine, Orono, ME Oct. 25-26, 2001.
Poetry Reading,
Mercersburg Academy, Mercersburg, PA, Nov. 4, 2001.
"Naropa
at Camden," Panel Discussion of Whitman, Nov. 10, 2001 and
Poetry Reading, Nov. 11, 2001. Walt Whitman Cultural Arts Center,
Camden. N.J.
"Propounding Modern Maleness: How Pound Managed a Muse,"
and poetry reading. University of Georgia, Athens, GA, Nov. 29-30,
2001.
2000
Appearance in Women's Studies 51, February 1, 2000. Invited by Professor
Louise Kidder.
Talk on The
Feminist Memoir Project, March 24, 2000. The College of St. Catherine,
Minneapolis, MN.
Poetry Reading,
Visiting Writers Series, 25 March, 2000. The College of St. Catherine,
Minneapolis, MN.
Poetry Reading,
2nd Annual Poetry Event, 27 April 2000. Tredyffrin Public Library,
Chester County, PA. With Ron Silliman.
University of
Washington, Seattle. "Marble Paper: Toward a Feminist History
of Poetry." Lecture, 31 May 2000. Also Colloquium and Conversation.
Poetry Reading,
Subtext Collective. Richard Hugo House, Seattle, Washington. 31
May 2000
Poetry Reading.
Kootenay School of Writing, Vancouver, B.C., Canada. 2 June 2000.
Poetry Reading.
Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. 14 November 2000, Sponsored
by the Stadler Center for Poetry. Also Poetry Workshop classroom
discussion, and open colloquium on The Feminist Memoir Project
"9 Poets
Reading themselves through Modernism." Poetry Reading, Kelly
Writers House, University of Pennsylvania, Modernist Studies Association,
2nd Annual Conference, 14 October 2000. (DuPlessis on Woolf)
Seminar, "Avant-Garde
and Cultural Studies," convenors: Barrett Watten and Rachel
Blau DuPlessis, Modernist Studies Association, 2nd Annual Conference
(University of Pennsylvania), 15 October 2000.
Off-Site Collective
Reading, MLA, Bridge Street Books, December 2000
1999
Philly Talks #13, With Barrett Watten. November 15, 1999, Writer's
House, University of Pennsylvania. Webcast.
"Entitled
New: A Social Philology of Modern American Poetries," Plenary
at the founding conference of the Modernist Studies Association,
7-10 October 1999, Penn State University, State College, PA.
Invited Seminar
Participation, Modern and Contemporary Poetry by Women, Modernist
Studies Association, 7-10 October 1999, Penn State University, State
College, PA.
Poetry Reading,
Modernist Studies Association, 7-10 October 1999, Penn State University,
State College, PA.
26 September
1999. Group poetry Reading, for Philly Edition 99 (American Poetry
Review).
17 May 1999.
Columbia Seminiar in Women and Society, Columbia University. Appearance
with Ann Snitow, The Feminist Memoir Project.
8 April 1999.
Villanova University, Poetry Reading.
27 March 1999.
Reading, Rosenbach Museum, "A Celebration of Philadelphia Writers,"
University of Pennsylvania Humanities Forum.
23 March 1999.
Drew University, New Jersey. Lecture and classroom appearance.
12 March 1999.
Poetry Reading, Small Press Traffic at New College, San Francisco.
11 March 1999.
Bookstore appearance, Black Oak Books, Berkeley, for The Feminist
Memoir Project.
10 March 1999.
Poetry Reading, University of California, Santa Cruz, sponsored
by the English Department.
8 March 1999.
Colloquium on my critical work and on The Feminist Memoir Project.
University of California, Santa Barbara, sponsored by Women's Studies.
4 March 1999.
Bookstore appearance, Midnight Special, Santa Monica for The Feminist
Memoir Project.
3 March 1999.
Poetry Reading, University of California, San Diego, sponsored by
the Literature Department.
"Community
Voices." Channel 17. Taping in January 1999.
Borders, Springfield,
PA. Discussion of The Feminist Memoir Project, 5 January 1999.
1998
Robins Bookstore, Philadelphia. Discussion of women's activism,
five generations; related to The Feminist Memoir Project. 13 December
1998.
Gershom YMHA
book discussion of The Feminist Memoir Project. With Ann Snitow.
2 December 1998.
Temple University
book discussion of The Feminist Memoir Project. With Ann Snitow.
Sponsored by the Women's Studies Program. 2 December 1998.
With Pierre
Joris, Jerry Rothenberg, Bob Perelman, celebration for Poems for
the Millennium, Kelly Writers House, University of Pennsylvania,
September 28, 1998
"'Most
Uncannily in the Open': the "idea" and the "thing"
in some work of George Oppen." Conference on The idea and the
thing in 20th Century American Poetry, Terza Università degli
Studi di Roma, July 6-8, 1998.
June 14-21,
1998. Naropa Institute, The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics,
Boulder, Colorado, Residency, Reading, Lecture.
June 12, 1998.
Session #7. Exploratory Form. Paper on "Seriality." The
Fourth Annual West Chester University Poetry Conference. West Chester,
PA.
May 17, 1998.
Second Annual High School Poetry Festival, organized by Friends
Central
April 1, 1998,
Reading, the Voice Box, Royal Festival Hall, South Bank Centre,
London, England.
March 31, 1998.
Delivered poem as paper "Draft 33: Deixis," Postmodern
Poetry Conference, Exmouth Campus, University of Plymouth, England.
March 30, 1998.
Reading, Postmodern Poetry Conference, Exmouth Campus, University
of Plymouth, England.
March 27, 1998.
Reading Morden Tower, Newcastle-on-Tyne, England.
February 7,
1998. Reading, Segue @ Here, Here Center for Independent Art, New
York City.
January 29 1998,
Reading, George's 5th Street Cafe, Philadelphia.
1997
Paget-Hoy Speaker's Series, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
Lecture ("Manifests"), poetry reading, panel discussion
of my work. Also served as the External Examiner on a dissertation
defense, January 9-12, 1997.
Poetry Reading,
Writers House, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, February
5, 1997.
St. Marks Poetry
Project, New York. Poetry Reading, February 26, 1997.
Ohio University.
Athens, OH. Creative Writing Program, Reading, interview, and symposium
discussion of my work in the essay and poetry. March 4-6, 1997.
Walt Whitman
Cultural Center, Camden, NJ. Poetry Reading. March 16, 1997.
Celebration
of poet John Wieners. Writers House, University of Pennsylvania.
April 11, 1997.
Poetry and the
Public Sphere Conference, Rutgers University. April 24-25, 1997.
Poetry readings and panel discussion: "Feminisms and the Difficult
Wor(l)d."
Poetry Reading,
Bridge St. Books, Washington, D.C., May 4, 1997.
High School
Poetry Festival, Friends Select School. Workshops and panel discussions.
May 18, 1997.
Philly Edition
reading, October 4, 1997, Philadelphia.
Modern Language
Association, Toronto. Panel 166 "Theorizing Creative Writing,
Creative Writers Theorizing." 28 December 1997. Delivered "Draft
33: Deixis (Being the Essay of Poetry as Thinking).
1996
Barnard College 10th International Conference on Translation, November
15-16, 1996. Formed the panel "America's Feminisms and the
Poetics of the Avant-Garde." I formed the panel; also participated
in a poetry reading at that conference.
Keynote speaker,
Twentieth-Century Literature Conference, University of Louisville.
"ƒ-words: an essay on the essay." February 1996.
Also poetry reading at that conference with Barrett Watten.
Keynote speaker,
Conference on American Poetry in the 1950s, University of Maine,
Orono. "Manhood and its Poetic Projects--The construction of
masculinity in the poetry and culture of the 1950s, A Scout's Report."
June 1996.
1995
"Darken Your Speech," International Conference on American
Modernism, June 15-17, 1995, Université de Montréal,
Canada.
"The Blazes
of Poetry," The Recovery of the Public World: A Conference
and Poetry Festival in Honour of Robin Blaser, Vancouver, British
Columbia, June 1-4, 1995.
"Manifests."
Lecture at Cornell University, March 30-April 1, 1995: "Past,
Present, Future Tense: A Conference on Contemporary Poetry."
1994
"HOO HOO HOO: Some Episodes in the Construction of Whiteness,"
Session 309 (New Modernist Studies), Modern Language Association,
December 28, 1994.
Invited participant
in the Ninth International Translation Conference: "Poetry/Translation/Poetry."
Barnard College, November 11-12, 1994. Translation of Olivier Cadiot,
section from Futur, ancien, fugitif.
Poetry Reading,
2 November 1994, Jumping Cow, Swarthmore as part of SOS, Writer's
Harvest: The National Reading.
Invited Seminar
Keynote: Conference on Writing Practices and Gender, University
of Kansas, 17-18 February 1994. Also delivered lecture ("Corpses
of Poesy") and gave a poetry reading.
1993
Reading, IPSO Café, Philadelphia, 6 October 1993.
Lecture "Corpses
of Poesy: some modern poets and some gender ideologies of lyric,"
for the English Department, 10 May 1993, Stockholms Universitet,
Stockholm, Sweden.
Lecture, "Polygynous
Poetries: Experimental Writing by North American Women," for
The English Society and the Department of English, 13 May 1993,
Uppsala Universitet, Uppsala, Sweden.
"Corpses
of Poesy"--lecture delivered by invitation of the Graduate
English Organization, University of Maryland, College Park, 27 April
1993.
Reading, Benefit
for TO, The Ear Inn, 24 April 1993.
Reading and
Discussion of my poetry, for CAST (The Center Alliance for Secondary
School Teachers and Texts), Maryland, 2 March 1993.
Reading, Robins
Bookstore as part of the Temple Writers Read at Robins, 15 February
1993.
1992
"Feminist Experimental Poetry," Special Session 621, Contemporary
Women Experimental Writers, Modern Language Association of America,
30 December 1992.
"Zukofsky,
Oppen, Niedecker: Objectivist Bildungen," Special Session 278,
"Objectivism in the 1930s," Modern Language Association
of America, New York, 28 December 1992.
Poetry Reading,
The Ear Inn, New York, 21 November 1992.
Participated
in a seminar in Feminist Theory, discussion of my work, graduate
course, Trenton State College, 5 November 1992.
Panel participation;
brief comments "Writing Like an Essay," Conference in
Honor of Carolyn Heilbrun, CUNY-Graduate Center, New York, 30 October
1992.
Leader, Roundtable
discussion, "Experimental Critical Writing," Sixth National
Graduate Student Conference, 16 October 1992.
Ten-Day Residency
for translation of my poetry into French, Le Centre de Poésie
et Traduction de la Fondation Royaumont, Aisères-sur-Oise,
France, 28 September- 7 October 1992.
Reading, Maison
des Ecrivains, Paris, October 1992.
Reading, Walt
Whitman Centennial Conference. Samuel Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia,
7 May 1992.
Reading and
discussion of The Pink Guitar, Bryn Mawr College, 10 April 1992.
Lecture, "Corpses
of Poesy," Tulane University, New Orleans, 6 April 1992.
Lecture, "Corpses
of Poesy," St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, 11 March 1992.
Comment, Paper
by Johanna Drucker, Columbia University Seminar on Women and Society,
New York, 9 March 1992.
Reading, Cornell
University, Council of the Creative and Performing Arts, "Visual
Feminist Discourse--Feminist Literary Theory." 6-8 March 1992.
1991
Poetry Reading: The Ear Inn, New York, 12 January 1991.
Poetry Reading
and Classroom Residency: Gettysburg College, 31 January -1 February
1991.
Reading, Girlfriends
Bookstore, Philadelphia, PA, 14 March 1991.
Invited Speaker
(paper on Lorine Niedecker), Conference, Glasnost in Two Cultures:
Soviet Russian/North American Women's Writing, New York Institute
for the Humanities, 21-23 March 1991.
Poetry Reading:
Bick's Bookstore, Washington, D.C., 7 April 1991.
Lecture in the
series "Wednesdays at 4 Plus" and Seminar Discussion of
my creative work, SUNY-Buffalo, 17-18 April 1991.
Poetry Reading,
Central Park Grill, Buffalo, NY, 17 April 1991.
Invited reader,
Peter Brazeau Poetry Event, Saint Joseph College, West Hartford,
CT. 3 October 1991.
Paper delivered
("T.S. Eliot's Sweeneys"), Columbia University Seminar
in American Studies, 19 December 1991.
1990
Poetry Reading: Small Press Traffic, San Francisco, 5 January 1990.
Invited panelist,
Associated Writing Programs (AWP) National Conference, 22-24 March
1990, Denver, Colorado. Panel (to which I invited participants)
on Feminist Approaches to Form.
Invited presenter,
Salon, President's House, University of Colorado, Boulder, 23 March
1990.
Panelist, "Poetry
and Knowledge," St. Mark's Poetry Project, New York, 4 May
1990.
Panelist, Discussion
of George Oppen, Poet's House, New York, 4 May 1990.
Seminar discussion
of my poetry, Swarthmore College, 29 October 1990.
Lecture, "WOME/ANINGS:
Experimental Poetry by Contemporary Women," Graduate Colloquium,
Beaver College, 4 December 1990.
Paper, "Circumscriptions:
A Cut into T.S. Eliot's Sweeneys," Modern Language Association,
Division of Twentieth Century American Literature, 28 December 1990.
1989
Poetry Reading: The Ear Inn, New York, 7 January 1989
Poetry Reading:
Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, 4 March 1989, as part of a conference
called "The Reading of Gender."
"Zora Neale
Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God," invited lecture, University
of Michigan, 7-8 March 1989.
Poetry Reading:
Painted Bride Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA, 16 March 1989.
Poetry Reading:
North-East MLA, 1 April 1989, Wilmington, Delaware.
"A Loy
Unto Herself: Sexuality, Gender Narratives, and the Ideology of
Lyric Poetry," Narrative Convention, University of Wisconsin,
6-8 April 1989. I also formed the panel, called Gender Narratives
of Lyric Poetry.
Invited Lecturer,
Paley Library Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series, Temple University,
1 November 1989, "The Pink Guitar: Writing as Feminist Practice."
Poetry Reading:
Swarthmore College, 28 November 1989.
1988
Poetry Reading: L'essentielle, a women's bookstore, Montreal, Québec,
14 March 1988.
"No Moore
of the Same: The Feminist Poetics of Marianne Moore," invited
lecture, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, 15 March 1988.
"Innovative
Poetry by Women," Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan,
26 March 1988.
Poetry Reading:
Woodland Pattern Book Center, Milwaukee, WI, 27 March 1988.
"No Moore
of the Same" University of Wisconsin, Madison, 28 March 1988.
Poetry Reading:
University of Wisconsin, Madison, 28 March 1988.
"Sub Rrosa,"
University of Pennsylvania Seminar in Language, Culture, Gender
and Power," 6 April 1988.
Poetry Reading:
Robbins Book Store, Philadelphia, 11 May 1988.
"No Moore
of the Same: The Feminist Poetics of Marianne Moore," Journal
Club, Temple University, September 1988.
Poetry Reading:
PEN-American Center, New York, 6 October 1988.
"Women,
Poetry, and the Literary Canon," Philomethean Society, University
of Pennsylvania, 29 October 1988.
1987
Poetry Reading: The Ear Inn, New York, 7 March 1987.
Ryan Writer
in Residence, Xavier University, Cincinnati, OH., 8-10 April 1987.
"Feminist
Narrative in Woolf," Why The Novel Matters: A Postmodern Perplex,
20th Anniversary Conference of Novel, Brown University, Providence,
23-24 April 1987.
Poetry Reading:
Cooper Foundation Residency, Swarthmore College, 29 October 1987.
1986
Respondent to Marjorie Perloff, Conference on Contemporary American
Poetry and Its Canon, Humanities Institute of Brooklyn College and
CUNY Graduate Center, 10 May 1986.
Lecture on feminist
literary criticism for the Mellon Seminar on Feminist Theory, Occidental
College, Los Angeles, CA, 13 May 1986.
Paper on George
Oppen, George Oppen Conference "The Pleasure of Being Heard,"
University of California, San Diego, 15 May 1986.
Poetry Reading:
University of California, San Diego, 15 May 1986.
"Gender-Inflected
Greek," H.D. Centennial Conference, University of Maine at
Orono, 5-7 June 1986.
"Reading
Her Life: H.D. and the Essay," H.D. Conference, Moravian College,
Bethlehem, PA, 13 September 1986.
Poetry Reading:
Intersection, San Francisco, CA, 8 November 1986.
"George
Oppen and Silence," Second Annual George Oppen Lecture, San
Francisco State University, 9 November 1986.
"Asking
Gender Questions: Women and Modernism," Modern Language Association,
New York, 28 December 1986.
1985
"What Writes," Panel discussion, New Langton Arts, San
Francisco, 10 February 1985.
Residency, Extension
Writers Program, University of California, Los Angeles, 12-13 February
1985.
"Image/Imaging,"
Panel discussion by avant garde poets, Tyler School of the Arts,
10 April 1985.
Poetry Reading:
Tyler School of the Arts, Philadelphia, 10 April 1985.
Poetry Reading:
Robins Book Store, Philadelphia, 24 April 1985.
"The Tradition
of Marginality," St. Mark's Poetry Project "Talks"
Series, 6 June 1985.
"Writing
Otherness: H.D.'s Joyces and Choices," James Joyce Symposium,
Philadelphia, June 1985.
Poetry Reading:
Cambridgeshire College of Art and Technology, Cambridge, England,
15 October 1985.
Poetry Reading:
Jesus College, Cambridge, England, 16 October 1985.
Poetry Reading:
University of Durham, Durham, England, 17 October 1985.
Service to
the Profession
Elected to a five-year term as member of the Executive Committee,
Division of Twentieth-Century American Literature, Modern Language
Association, 1992-1997; Division Chairperson, 1995.
Added to the
Collegio dei Docenti of the PhD Program in Comparative Literature,
University of Macerata (Italy), as of June 2003.
Journals
Appointed to MAPS Board (Modern American Poetry Site; webmaster,
Cary Nelson), 2001-
Appointed to editorial board of reconfigured Paideuma, 2001-
Editorial Board of Modernism/Modernity, August 2000-
Editorial Board, Narrative, 1992-98
Editorial Board, Feminist Studies, 1974-1982
Associate Editor for Creative Work, Feminist Studies, 1982-December
1987.
Consultant, Feminist Studies, December 1987-current.
Editorial Consultant, Journal of Modern Literature, 1987-current.
Contributing Editor, HOW(ever), 1983-1989. Experimental feminist
writing.
Consulting Editor, Sagetrieb, 1983-current.
Consulting Editor, Sulfur, 1987-2000 [when magazine ended].
Co-editor, Special issue for H.D. Centennial, Contemporary Literature
27, 4 (Winter 1986); with Susan Stanford Friedman.
Editor, Special issue for H.D. Centennial, Sagetrieb 6, 2 (Fall
1987).
Editorial
Boards, Presses
Appointed to term on the Board of The University of Wisconsin Press,
Series on Contemporary North American Poetry, eds. Lynn Keller,
Alan Golding, Adalaide Morris. 2001-
On Board of
Advisors, University of Alabama Press Series in Modern and Contemporary
Poetics, eds. Hank Lazer and Charles Bernstein, 1997-.
On Board of
Advisors, Poems for the Millennium, The University of California
Book of Modern and Postmodern Poetry, ed. Jerome Rothenberg and
Pierre Joris, 1995-2000.
Outside Consultant,
Promotion and Tenure, Grants
University of Louisville, 1978; University of Massachusetts,1979;
Barnard College, 1981; Rutgers University, 1981; The George Washington
University, 1982; Stanford University, 1982; Montana State University,
1984; University of California--Santa Cruz, 1986; Occidental College,
1987; SUNY-Purchase, 1988; University of Michigan, 1988; Yale University,
1989; Barnard College, 1989; SUNY-Purchase, 1990; The Pennsylvania
State University, 1990; The University of Pennsylvania, 1990; University
of Alabama, 1992; Queen's University (Ontario), 1992; Eugene Lang
College--The New School for Social Research, 1993, 1996; Rice University,
1994; College of William and Mary, 1995; University of South Florida,
1996; University of California, San Diego, 1996; Swarthmore College,
1996; Wayne State University, 1998. Evaluation, Guggenheim Foundation,
1998; Evaluation, MacArthur nomination, 1998; Evaluation, Institute
for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Evaluation, for a Hilldale and Vilas Professorship, University of
Wisconsin, Madison; Tenure Evaluation, York University, Canada,
Fall 1999; Personnel Evaluation, Drew University, Fall 1999; Evaluation,
Guggenheim Foundation, Fall 1999; Fellowship Chair, Wayne State
University, Fall 1999; SUNY-Buffalo, for Distinguished Professor,
October 2000; DePauw University, for appointment to University Professor,
October 2000; Evaluation of three candidates for job at SUNY-Buffalo,
November 2000; candidate for an institutional grant, Ohio University,
Athens, Ohio; senior hire, University of California, Berkeley, March
2001; candidate for senior hire, Cornell University, 2001; tenure
evaluation, Fordham University, 2002; Tenure Evaluation, Davidson
College (January 2002); Tenure Evaluation, SUNY-Buffalo (February
2002). Promotion evaluation, Pennsylvania State University, October
2002. Promotion evaluation, University of Connecticut, Storrs, September
2002 and 2003; Wayne State University, 2003. Tenure Evaluation,
University of Maine-Orono, 2004.
Editorial
Consultant
Indiana University Press, 1979, 1980, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1988, 1989;
University of Massachusetts Press, 1982; Duke University Press,
1984, 1986, 1994; Cornell University Press, 1984, 1987, 1995; 1996;
University of Illinois Press, 1987, 1991; Methuen, 1987; University
of California Press, 1987, 1999; University of North Carolina Press,
1987, 1993; Princeton University Press, 1988, 1993; University of
Texas Press, 1991; University of Arizona Press, 1991; Northwestern
University Press, 1994; The Feminist Press, Fall 1995; Rutgers University
Press, 1996; University of Alabama Press, 1998; Bucknell University
Press, 1999; Wesleyan University Press, 2000, University of Illinois
Press, January 2001, New Directions, May 2001;Wesleyan University
Press, July 2001., University of Iowa Press, May 2002.Wesleyan University
Press, March 2003.
Outside Reader
Signs, 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993; Victorian Studies, 1983; Novel, 1986;
Journal of Modern Literature, 1986, 1987, 1989, 1991; 1995, 1999;
NEH Translation Proposal, 1985; NEH Institutional Grant, 1989; Grants
Evaluator, Travel To Collections Grants in American Literature,
NEH, 1990; Contemporary Literature, 1990, 1995, 2000, 2001; PMLA,
1991; Mosaic, 1993, 1995; Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature, 1993,
1995. 2000, 2001, 2002 (twice). See also Feminist Studies, board
Service to
the Profession: Temple University (highlights in boldface)
University
Level
Member, Committee on the Status of Women 2000-03.
Service on the University Task Force on the Arts, May 1999-2003;
Provost's Commission on the Arts, 1992-94. Poem: "A Primer
for a President," composed for David Adamany's Inaugural Festival,
20 October 2000. Appointed to the Faculty Senate Committee on the
Status of Women, 2000-2001. University Task Force on Women's Studies,
1992; Representative Faculty Senate, 1988-91; Pro tem Chair, Faculty
Senate Committee on the Status of Women, 1980-81; Presidential Search
Committee for an Assistant Vice President for Affirmative Action,
Spring 1981; Fulbright Committee, 1984-85.
College Level
Appointed to the College Personnel Committee, 3 year term beginning
1999 (resigned 2000); Appointed to the College Awards Committee,
3 year term, beginning 1999; Research and Study Leaves Committee,
1992-1993 (resigned to apply for leave); 1995-96; Writing Committee,
1988-90, Chair of Writing Committee, 1989-90; Women's Studies Advisory
Council, 1977-81, 1982-1993; Graduate Committee, Women's Studies,
1995-00; CAS Executive Committee (replacement) Spring 1986; Director,
Women's Studies Program, July 1982-June 1985; CAS Grievance Committee,
1984-87; Women's Studies Organizing Committee, 1976-77.
Department Level
Search
Committee, Romanticism appointment, 2003-04. Director of Creative
Writing, AY 2002-04. Graduate Executive Committee 2002-03. Personnel
Committee, 2000-01; Graduate Executive Committee, 2000-01; Search
Committee for 18th Century appointment (including trip to Modern
Language Association, December 2000); Read manuscripts for Joe Beam
Prize (March 2001), for Beebe and Newton Awards (April 2001); Helped
with Graduate Student Placement Committee; Chair for a Week, Fall
Semester 2000 (Oct. 30-Nov. 3). Director, Creative Writing Program,
1992-1994; Acting Director, Fall 1998; Director, Creative Writing
2001-02; Search Committee for Chairperson, 1988-90 (also Affirmative
Action Officer of that committee); Advisory Committee to Temple
Press Translation Series, 1988-1994; Graduate Executive Committee,
1989-1994, also subcommittee on exams;1999-2001. Graduate Self-Study
Committee, 1989-1990; Lectures Committee 1989-1990 (chair), 1976-80;
Graduate Awards and Financial Aid, 1986-87, 1989-91 (chair, 1990-91),
1992-94; Assistant to Graduate Chair, 1990-91, including graduate
placement; Promotion and Tenure Committee, 1982-83, 1988-89; 1990-91
(Chair of P&T, 1990-91), 1996-97; (P&T now called Personnel
Committee)1999-2001; Creative Writing Executive Committee, 1982-current;
Appointments Committee, 1986-87; 1990-91; 1991-92; 1991-93; 1993-94;
1996-97; 1997-98 (Chair of Search Committee). Placement Committee,
Graduate Program, 1996-97; Special Merit Committee of P&T, 1996-97.
Elected to Executive Committee, 1997-98.
Other Professional
Activity
Dissertations
Supervised
Dr. Kim Bernstein,
defended dissertation on T.S. Eliot, February 5, 1994.
Dr. Andrew Mossin, defended, October l997. Scenes of Intent: Community,
Masculine Subjectivity, and the Formation of Poetic Career, treating
Robert Duncan, Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, and Nathaniel Mackey.
Dr. Seth Frechie, defended dissertation, on postmodernism in poetic
fictions. April 2, 1999.
Dr. Heather Thomas, defended dissertation, May 10, 1999. Spectacular
Margins: Women Poets Reconfigure the Epic, treating Alice Notley
and Anne Waldman.
Dr. Judith Schwartz, defended dissertation, May 11, 1999. On Objectivist
poets.
Dr. Susan Levasseur. Defense, January 2002. Imaginary Revolutions:
Frustrated Form in Women's Poetry and Novels of the Romantic Period.
Doctoral
Committee Service in Addition to Students Supervised
Dr.
Diane McManus, on Virginia Woolf, Ph.D., June 1989
Dr. Lisa Joyce, on Marianne Moore and visual art, Ph.D. June 1991
Dr. Mary Rigsby, Fullerian poetics in 19th century women's, Ph.D.
August 1991
Dr. Dan Goodman, on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Ph.D. May 1993
Dr. Robin Nilon, on D.H. Lawrence, Ph.D. November 1992
Dr. Eric Gadzinski, on Vietnam War Poetry and Trauma, Ph.D., August
1995
Dr. Carolyn Sorisio, on 19th century American literature and the
body, Ph.D. May 1996
Dr. Lois Bates, Ph.D., Spring 1997, on Africanist representations
in British modernism
Dr. Maggie Galehouse, Ph.D., Spring 1997, on female vagabond motif
Dr. Jaime Harker, Ph.D., May 1998. Middlebrow American fiction.
David Haslam, exam 1999
Dr. Gillian Johns, Ph.D., Fall 1999. African American fiction and
satire.
Gregg Biglieri, exams 1999-2000, protocol and reader (2004)
Dr. Eric Keenaghan, Fall 2002. US and Cuban queer modernisms.
Siobhan Broderick, 1999- present, writing on Allen Ginsberg.
Julia Mendenhall, 1999-present, writing on genre in lesbian films.
Other Professional Activity, not associated with Temple University
Evaluation of a major research proposals for the Ministero dell'Istruzione
dell'Università e della Ricerca (MIUR) in Italy. Fall 2002,
Spriong 2003.
Outside Reader
for Linda Russo Ph.D. dissertation, SUNY-Buffalo, November 2003.
Dissertation
Evaluation, Mark Broadhead, submitted for the degree of Doctor of
Philosophy, School of Literary, Visual and Performance Studies,
Monash University, Australia. Avatars of the Seventh Article: Literature,
Genre, and Autobiography in Virginia Woolf. Fall 2002.
Outside examiner,
Dissertation in Temple University Religion Department (Jill Gorman),
14 February 2003.
Dissertation
Evaluation, Allison Detmer Carpenter, University of Delaware, March
21, 2001.
Dissertation
Evaluation, Outside Reader for Thomas H. Fisher, Poetry's Forfeiture:
The Case of Laura Riding and George Oppen, SUNY-Buffalo, April 2000.
Dissertation
Evaluation, Irena Ragaisiene, The Closed Gardens of Art: Mythopoetic
Strategies in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath. University of Bergen,
Norway. April 2000.
Dissertation
Evaluation, Nicole Markotic. Creative Dissertation. University of
Calgary, Canada, June 1997.
Dissertation
Evaluation, Alan Shima, Skirting the Subject: Rich, Griffin, Dahlen.
University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 1993.
Donation of
Research Files concerning American poet George Oppen to University
of California San Diego, Mandeville Collection (MSS 205) 1.4 cu.
ft. (4 archives boxes). Acquired Sept. 9, 1991, Accession Number
1991. 17 (149).
Donation of
52 periodical issues and 60 books to Paley Library, October 2000;
donation of books and periodicals to Paley Library, 2001.
Memberships in Professional Organizations
1999-current Modernist Studies Association (MSA)
1990-current PEN-American Center
1982-current
Associated Writing Programs (AWP) (Institutional member)
1975-current Temple Association of University Professionals (TAUP)
1970-current Modern Language Association (MLA)